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An Elite Trade School
By blending college education with a traditional form of craftmanship education, the American College of Building Arts guides students to build tables…
Apr 22, 2024
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FEMA Is Not Screwing Blue States
It is a red flag whenever any complex data is reduced to "red vs blue"
Mar 31
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We're Going To Need Humans More
We will find that the more AI streamlines our workflow, the more we will need other humans for advice, guidance, and grounding.
Mar 25
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The Case Against Masks In Schools
Aug 20, 2021
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A Long One About The Florida Data Scandal
May 22, 2020
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The Case Of The Abandoned Metrics
Jan 4, 2022
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The Fallacy of Red Covid
Apr 21, 2022
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Essential Terms of the Authority Crisis
Jun 22, 2022
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What Conservatives Missed In Barbie
Aug 21, 2023
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Trust Networks Are the Antidote to AI Hype
A review of what the hell is going on in the AI news deluge and the importance of finding people we trust to ground our expectations and thinking.
Feb 26
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Remember The Silence
To sit at the bedside of the dying is a profound and sacred thing. It's a great evil that we denied this to so many people.
Feb 5
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Podcast: The Dignity of Dependence with Leah Libresco Sargeant
Matt and Leah discuss her recent book "The Dignity of Dependence" and how dependence and action of care are core to the human experience
Feb 2
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We Don't Believe You
The practice of using extrapolation as a substitute for evidence leads us ever further from the truth
Jan 28
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A 2025 Reading List For Unfocused Esoterics
It’s been a fairly insane year for me involving unemployment, deaths in the family, and what seems to be one crisis after another.
Dec 18, 2025
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How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love The Agents
In which a technologist hands Grok his years of communication to help make sense of relationships in chaos
Dec 10, 2025
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Inside the Minnesota Benefits Fraud Scandal
I talk with Ann Bauer about her investigation of and view inside Minnesota Benefits Fraud Scandal
Dec 8, 2025
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